Re:Explaining the OAuth Session Fixation Attack
by tptacek on Thursday April 23, 2009 @05:19PM
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We had someone on the team looking at it, but our emphasis was on things that a consumer or service provider stack could screw up in software, not so much on the protocol itself. (Our analysis was also very, very casual; we wrote code for it, but we didn't have a project plan.)
The other thing that messes with you with OAuth is how closely OAuth resembles a lot of ad-hoc schemes that preceded it; many of them have been tested and analyzed to death, so it lulls you into a false sense of confidence.
The other thing that messes with you with OAuth is how closely OAuth resembles a lot of ad-hoc schemes that preceded it; many of them have been tested and analyzed to death, so it lulls you into a false sense of confidence.